Isn’t VMWare out of support anyway?

Not that I fault the users of it - a perpetual license is a perpetual licence and good luck with the C&D, but there are other options. Though I only know of OpenShift on RHEL.

It already has. Ozempic, once weekly injection, can reverse the need of insulin in Type 2 diabetics. My dad still has the symptoms he accumulated, but hasn’t had any worsening of symptoms and improvement of a lot.

My blood work is perfect. My heart rate and blood pressure (aside of POTS) is perfect. I can mow the yard without passing out.

My sugar consumption has dropped a lot. And I’m eating way better.

But to me? It’s not about the lifespan. It’s the quality of life. I can chase my kid around again. I feel more attractive. I can do things that normally I hide from. One day I might even try to get laid. If I get cancer in 20 years directly tied to it, so what? Ain’t no “Cats in the Cradle” here.

It does. It basically slows your entire digestive system way down to the point where you physically can’t eat more than you should. Which also kills your appetite.

Interestingly, I’ve discovered whatever nuerotransmitters are affected by it is completely counteracted by lunesta.

Wegovy/Saxenda whatever others are (GLP-1) inhibitors aren’t a scam, they work.

They are absurdly expensive for the benefit they bring. Of course, fat lot of good it does if you don’t use it to the full extent so you can actually get off of it.

It’s not a baby boom they are after. I used to think it was all about cheaper labor.

Nope. It’s to tie up fathers and mothers so they are too busy to pay attention that people start starving, dying of disease, and disappearing.

The added benefit, if they can do it “their way” they kill multiple birds with one stone - A. Prevent the “white replacement theory” (wtf) B. Lower the number of people willing to fight against the Regime, C. Cheaper, younger labor pool hopefully educated enough to go into the military And that’s about it.

Soft Eugenics. Genocide through “nature”.

Won’t work, but they’re not the brightest people.

Man when I think of living it up with wealth and power I think of Sal Maroni in The Dark Knight.

These guys don’t need a criminal underworld to have a cigar, dress in a tailored designer suit, get a drink and a couple of girls to pretend to like you while you drown your thoughts in excessively loud music and exotic dancers on stage.

I think these elite are afraid of what they are: flawed humans. They can’t get everything they demand, and they’d rather destroy humanity than admit they were wrong or made a mistake, or felt bad about something. So they have to pump the fascists up and make damn sure the people have someone other that just you to get angry about.

A bunch of it hit roadblocks with pesky judges, but some of it just happened - like the defunding of public broadcast programming.

If there was ever a time that weaponized autism was needed.

I don’t think Trump is actually running the white house anymore. Watching the project 2025 checklist, it’s far too complete for Trump to be able to dictate any of it.

Actually, I don’t think any of the Regime cabinet is running anything. It’s the Heritage Foundation.

The republicans were hand picked to make sure the Heritage Foundation has absolute power. I am willing to believe the Heritage Foundation has control of the Supreme Court too, thinking about it.

A literal shadow government. Every accusation is an admission.

There’s a bit of the bystander effect, and the fact that he’s in office now, and not just protected by secret service. Bush Jr. Saw the White House get fortified into a military facility. It has fucking anti-aircraft defenses. Obama saw the motorcade get overhauled into a series of what amount to tanks. Supposedly the glass and armor can withstand at least one RPG hit( the type with the shaped charged that cuts through steel) .

Whatever defenses Trump didn’t know he had in 2016, he knows about now and then some. A straight up assassination isn’t feasible - even if you could get ahold of his actual schedule, the type of equipment you’d need to reach him is way out of the hands of your normal citizen.

And then, even if you could get your hands on that equipment - you have to be able to use it. That drastically narrows the number of people who can pull it off to pretty much exclusively former military. And most of that kind of stuff isn’t “lone Wolf” stuff so now it’s further reduced.

Further anyone who goes around and admits they have the Intel, the training, the equipment, and the plan to do it in any capacity online will probably be outed before they can pull it off.

The only way the Regime goes down is by popular resistance. The only way we get to popular resistance is through protesting in person and seeing the numbers and communicating without leaving traces.

It’s happening, but it’s slow because the US is so unfathomably spread out. It takes time to move people places where we are used to instant communication. The Regime knows this. That’s why they send military convoys to arrest a guy posting flyers identifying HSI personnel. They can only delay at this point, but they’re either too stupid to realize that every thing they try now adds fuel to the fire, or they intend for it to all fall apart anyway.

No - it’s research ethics. As in you get informed consent. It just involves the Internet.

If the research contains any sort of human behavior recorded, all participants must know ahead of it and agree to participate in it.

This is a blanket attempt to study human behavior without an IRB and not having to have any regulators or anyone other than tech bros involved.

I don’t remember that subreddit

I remember a meme, but not a whole subreddit

“Certainly Sent a message.”

Yep. Seems like they know what they are doing is wrong and take being identified as a threat. Seems like we should all have that information then.

Yeah I’ve been married once.

That was too many so far

That’s the limit of the Regime. They can make meaningless threats or go after vulnerable people. Fascists don’t pick fights they can’t win or at least face no consequences.

Wait

You guys realize that everything they say has some link to things they end up doing right?

They’re targeting 258 million people.

I have no idea what any of those things really does and it’s way too much to learn given how much GIMP and Krita do

I can just hear it go “pssp, pssp” as it slides through the hot end

Edit: better comment

m o i s t u r e

Given what Elon Musk has said and done, I would not be a bit surprised if he made a mad dash for the nuclear stockpile.

Why be the richest man on earth, when you can also be the one to hold it hostage?

No that’s not ok

That’s really not ok

Goddamnit